How a mentally ill student became
San Gabriel’s Barbecue Tongs Murderer
George W. Pigman IV sat expressionless
as the verdict was read. His red hair, blue
eyes and delicate features stood in contrast
to his haunted, angry look. He had not
spoken throughout his trial. He didn’t
speak now. It took less than two full days
of deliberation for the Pasadena Superior
Court jury to find this son of a prominent
Caltech professor guilty of first-degree
murder.
This shocking case of a child of
privilege brutally murdering his girlfriend
had been simmering in the justice system
for some time. Despite the brevity of the
final phase of the trial, the impact of the
verdict was overwhelmed by a secondary
verdict: that he was in fact, insane at the
time of the murder.
There is no doubt of Pigman’s
culpability in the cold-blooded killing of
Eimi Yamada, but the final sentence, “not
guilty by reason of insanity,” was trivialized
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health. First degree murder. Not guilty by
reason of insanity. Did Pigman know what
he was doing at the time of the murder?
The “insanity defense” is often portrayed as
nothing more than a criminal’s last-ditch
effort to escape punishment.
Insanity is a topic that rests uneasily
upon the American conscience; it is a
tragic variable of the human mind that
is not uncommon in our society. In our
efforts to accommodate mental illness,
a rift has developed between protecting
the rights of the afflicted, and protecting
the public from the depredations of the
insane. People suffering from mental
illness cannot be completely isolated from
society, nor can they be fully integrated.
Although medication is a powerful tool in
treating mental illness, there continues to
be an astonishing lack of identification and
treatment of mentally ill individuals who
may one day “snap” and destroy innocent
lives. Pigman had fallen very far, very fast,

but from the onset there were clues that he
was a deeply troubled young man.
This murder could have and should
have been prevented. Eimi Yamada, a
21-year-old Japanese international student,
tried to look away, tried to block the
endless blows, as she was stabbed to death
on the bathroom floor of her San Gabriel
apartment in May of 2005.
The police found her body nude except
for a blue T-shirt wrapped around her
neck. She lay in a semi-fetal position.
George Wood Pigman IV murdered
Eimi Yamada with a semi-sharp pair of
scalloped-edged kitchen utility tongs in

Darby Williams, left, one of
George Wood Pigman IV’s public
defenders, sits with him during
opening statements on Feb. 4,
2009. Photo by Walt Mancini for
San Gabriel Valley News.
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a haze of delusion. She was beaten and
stabbed multiple times not only on her
face, but on all extremities, back and
front. Her death was not swift or in any
way justifiable; it was extremely slow
and painful, the assault lasting 20 to 30
minutes. She may have clung to life after
losing consciousness. She did not have the
tools to defend herself either physically or
socially; she was killed in her own home
by someone she loved and
trusted.
Unfortunately, Yamada’s
tragic case is not unheard of
in today’s culture of violence.
It is a fact that instances like
this have become an accepted
reality that is most troubling.
The Columbine High
School massacre of April 20,
1999, in which Eric Harris, 18,
and Dylan Klebold, 17, killed
12 students and one teacher,
and wounded 21 others before
committing suicide is etched
on the public consciousness
as being the first “school
shooting,” although shootings
in schools have occurred in the
United States as far back as the
1700s. Some were accidental,
some were malicious and some
the direct result of mental
illness. The body count rises as
does the number of incidents
and public debate rages as
to what to do about “campus
crazies.”
Following Jared Lee
Loughner’s Tucson shootings
of 2011, Philip Mullendore,
Glendale’s Interim Campus
Chief of Police, hosted two
packed presentations in the
auditorium. “From Creepy
To Killer: Recognizing the
Warning Signs of Potentially
Violent Behavior on Campus,” provided
the campus community with guidelines
for coping with troubled students. “Many
people struggle with mental illness,” said
Mullendore. “Very few of them are violent.
Every teacher will, at some point, have
to deal with a student whose behavior is
inappropriate.”

George Pigman’s strange behavior was not unnoticed, but
it wasn’t until after he brutally
murdered a Japanese student
that he was diagnosed with
mental illness.
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Amy Sterling Casil reported in a
recent article for policymic, “Jared Lee
Loughner had been reported to campus
police at Pima Community College for
threatening behavior at least 18 times
prior the rampage that grievously injured
former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords
and took the lives of six others. It took a
51-page mountain of written reports and
evidence for Loughner to be banned from

campus.” Some members of Glendale’s
campus community are concerned that
something similar could happen here.
Mullendore stressed the need to
set clear limits on acceptable behavior,
documenting incidents and when to
call the campus police. “Tell them: I
am uncomfortable with you standing
this close to me. In this class, we do not
yell,” he said, listing possible examples of
inappropriate behavior that could precede
a violent episode. “Keep a journal of
incidents, and if you feel that a student has
crossed the line, do not hesitate to call the
campus police.” He was not aware that the

barbecue tongs murderer of San Gabriel
was once a student at GCC.
Pigman, 23 at the time of his crime,
grew up in Pasadena. His father, George
Wood Pigman III, was a venerable Caltech
literature professor with a specialty in
the history of psychoanalysis and dream
theory. His mother, Celeste Moore,
was an art professor at Pasadena City
College. Despite being raised in an
environment where education
was encouraged, Pigman’s
academic career was checkered
at best. Like many who suffer
from mental illness, Pigman is
fairly articulate and at one time
aspired to be a journalist.
In 2008, the Pasadena StarNews reported that Pigman
“liked to do stuff that was…
risky,” according to high school
classmate Daniel Faubert.
Another classmate, Ryan
Barker, alleged that Pigman
“was heavily involved with
hallucinogenic mushrooms.”
It was at Pasadena City
College, the school he
attended from the fall of
2001 to the spring of 2004,
that indications of his mental
illness first came to light.
He wrote for the Courier,
the student newspaper. His
writing style was self-indulgent
and disorganized, more rant
than report. His articles
with were marked with selfaggrandizement and a passiveaggressive, condescending
attitude toward women and
society.
In one of the few of his
article that made it to print,
“Punk Rock Finds a Voice
with New Mag,” Pigman
unnecessarily made the theme
of a story about a magazine entrepreneur’s
success running an indie punk zine into
that of a jilted lover trying to prove that
he is not “a loser” to his ex-girlfriend and
other critics.
“His e-mail file was full of letters
from disappointed fans telling him not
to “be a loser,” wrote Pigman about Jerry
Coria editor of Punk Rock Tonight. “But
his main inspiration for continuing the
magazine was [ex-girlfriend] Georgina
Alcaraz. He [Coria] wanted to prove he
could run the magazine on his own.”
“I remember him acting strange
at a JACC [Journalism Association of

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“She was yelling and kicking and not dying.
I had to kill her. I looked around for a knife or

something... I picked up a pair of semi-sharp salad

tongs. I chased her into the bathroom.
I started stabbing.”

— George W. Pigman IV

Community Colleges] convention at Cal
State Fullerton,” recalled Linda Rapka, a
former Courier editor-in-chief. “Rather
than attend any workshops, he had spent
the entire time in his hotel room drinking.
I gave him a ride back home after the
convention, and he kept asking me if he
could smoke weed in my car and if I’d
buy him booze at the liquor store (he was
then underage). I, of course, denied both
requests. When we got to town, rather
than have me drop him off at home, he had
me stop off at a birdbath several blocks
away from his house, which was odd since
he was in crutches at the time and could
barely walk.”
In another strangely self-justifying
article, Pigman voiced his disdain for
schools, characterizing teachers as
“people who approach the profession
as an opportunity to feel good about
being right,” and expressed his belief
that attendance and grading should not
be features of the educational system.
“It makes no sense for people to be
considered qualified or unqualified based
on evaluation through testing,” continued
Pigman. “The system produces certified
and ignorant professionals, while leaving
intelligent people behind.”
“From what I remember, we were in
the Courier office (upstairs above campus
police at that time),” said Rapka, recalling
the incident that led to Pigman’s expulsion,
“and he told off Editor-in-Chief Mitchell
Wright, after which he was escorted into
the hallway by campus police where a
bottle of vodka was discovered in his
backpack.”
In March of 2004, Pigman was removed
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rowdy and intoxicated. According to
Rapka, Pigman was allowed to continue
taking classes on campus as long as he
dropped his journalism class. After causing
another disturbance in an English class, he
failed to appear at his disciplinary hearing
and was later expelled. A small amount
of marijuana was involved. He transferred
to Glendale the next semester. During his
time here, his bizarre behavior did not go
unnoticed.
Jeff Smith, his speech professor, recalls
Pigman as “detached and passive.” Smith
was disturbed by Pigman’s reclusive
nature because he liked to “connect with
his students, and with George there was
just no way of reaching him.” Smith
also recalls a number of instances of
being startled by Pigman when he would
oftentimes “lurk in the darkness with his
skateboard” and “appear without warning.”
Unfortunately, Pigman was unable to make
a fresh start at his new school. His mental
illness stayed with him, growing, until it
could no longer be contained.
At around 2 a.m. on May 7, 2005 Los
Angeles Sheriff Deputies were called to
investigate a suspicious man on the roof of
an apartment in the 6800 block of La Presa
Drive in San Gabriel. Responding officer
Cesar Casillas testified “When I arrived
at the address, I saw a white male adult
standing on the rooftop of the indicated
location. He was naked. I saw that he had
blood on his hands, legs and genital area.
He was making loud noises, appeared
disoriented, angry and pacing from one
side of the roof to the other.”
Lt. Gregory Hinkle, a Temple City
Patrol Sergeant also testified, “I saw a
young, naked man on the roof. He was

playing with his penis.” About the loud
sounds, Hinkle told the jury that Pigman
was not saying words, but rather “It
reminded me of the old Frankenstein
movie, where Frankenstein is making his
noises.”
Investigators said they do not know
why Pigman was on the roof. He had
minor lacerations on his hands, which
could have been from the crime scene
or possibly from cutting himself on a
rain gutter, Carrillo said. As it turned
out, it was the rain gutter. And Pigman
didn’t surrender easily. For almost half an
hour he paced back and forth, taunting
the police, screaming and touching his
genitals. Eventually he came down from
the roof and was arrested.
A block away, in the 8500 block
of Palma Vista Street, a parallel story
unfolded. Pigman and Yamada’s altercation
was heard by the downstairs neighbor,
Yi-Ming Chu. In the silence that followed,
Chu became sufficiently concerned that
she called Daniel Hong who, with his
girlfriend Ann Chiou, lived in one of the
units towards the back of the complex.
Hong and Chiou heard some yelling
around 1 a.m., but assumed that it was
from a neighborhood party. It was the very
early hours of Saturday, after all.
After receiving the call, Hong went to
investigate and found blood on the door
knob. Repeated knocks got no response so
he and Chiou drove to the landlord, Steve
Hung’s, San Marino home. The coroner’s
investigator’s narrative stated that Hung
and his wife Gloria returned with Hong
and Chiou sometime after 1:30 a.m. Hung
let himself into the apartment with his key,
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the bathroom floor. Gloria Hung called
911 at that time. More than an hour had
passed since the assault began.
Eimi Yamada was the only child of
Toichi Yamada and Kayo Yamaguchi. She
was a pretty, bright girl who was studying
English at the Poly Languages Institute
on Lake Avenue and had been enrolled
in an ESL class at the PCC Community
Education Center earlier in the year,
according to Rapka. Eimi’s father, Toichi,
stated that Eimi was planning to return
to Japan in July, two short months away,
and had already gotten a job offer from
a shipping company impressed with
the computer and English skills she had
acquired while studying in Pasadena. She
had everything in life to look forward to.
In the year following Pigman’s
expulsion from Pasadena City College and
failed attempt to start over at Glendale, the
beast within Pigman grew exponentially
while he tried to self-medicate with
alcohol and marijuana. Later, in his prison
cell, he would write a self-justifying
appraisal of the events leading up to the
murder and his mindset when insanity
engulfed him.
Custody deputy Abi Ben-Sahile found
a journal written by Pigman on a notepad
during a routine search of his single-man
cell. Ben-Sahile told Deputy District
Attorney Teresa Sullivan that his training
as a custody deputy taught him to examine
paperwork found inside inmate’s cells,
for escape plans, and for plans to commit
violence. This document would later be
admitted as evidence in the case.
Pigman suffered from the delusion
that the manager at his workplace, Noah’s
Bagels, had Hispanic gang connections
and was part of a conspiracy to kill him for
disrespecting the “family.” “I was a pimp,
I was a gangster,” he wrote. “I had almost
got jumped in with the Bloods. Pasadena
Denver Lanes. Mountain View Bloods.
I was hard. I knew about such things.”
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that something was wrong with Pigman
and sent him home, but in Pigman’s
paranoid reality the stakes were much
higher. “People were trying to kill me,” he
continued. “I couldn’t contact the police
because I had a half ounce of chronic
in my backpack and I was a gangster. I
couldn’t snitch. I skateboarded south on
Lake as fast as I could. Every car I saw was
one of the killers.”
Three years later, during the
competency part of the trial, Dr. Kris
Mohandie, a clinical psychologist,
diagnosed Pigman as having a personality
disorder not otherwise specified, or a
mixed-personality disorder, with Pigman
meeting some criteria for both anti-social
personality disorder and narcissistic
personality disorder. “People who suffer
from anti-social personality disorder have
a pattern of violating the rights of others,
and rules of society,” Mohandie said.
When Public Defender Darby Williams
called her last witness, Dr. Joseph Ortego,
the clinical supervising psychiatrist for Los
Angeles County Twin Towers Correctional
Facility, he diagnosed Pigman as suffering
from bipolar I disorder and grandiose
delusional. The defense also called forensic
psychiatrist Dr. Gregory Cohen, who
testified that Pigman suffers from bipolar I
disorder with psychotic features, and could
not have appreciated the nature of his
actions due to what he phrased as a “first
manic break.” “The family, particularly
on the father’s side, has a history of acute
mental disorders,” Cohen told the jury. “An
uncle on the father’s side is being treated
for bipolar disorder. There���s a genetic
predisposition for the disorder.” Despite
his history of aberrant behavior, Pigman
had never been diagnosed with or treated
for mental illness prior to his arrest.
Overcome with paranoia, Pigman
crawled into someone’s hedge and
contemplated “smoking a bowl” to
calm down. He was discovered by the
homeowner and said to her “Listen Lady,
these people are trying to kill me. I need a
place to hide.” She offered to call
the police. He

panicked. She told him that he could not
continue to hide in her bushes and that
she would call the police if he did not leave
immediately. Pigman complied.
A urine sample taken from Pigman
following his arrest indicated that he
had 1185 nanograms per milliliter of
marijuana metabolite in his system at
the time he murdered Yamada. That may
be interpreted several different ways
including habitual, long-term use or acute
use. Fifty or 100 nanograms, depending
on stringency standard enforced, is
considered a “positive” for a standard
employment drug test. This test also
verified that Pigman had no measurable
amount of alcohol or other drugs in
his system at the time of the murder.
Marijuana is generally not considered to
be a violence-inducing drug; in fact one
of its medicinal uses is to reduce anxiety.
But in a susceptible person, there might be
other effects.
A 2009 study by Masood A. Khan
and Sailaja Akella, “Cannabis-Induced
Bipolar Disorder with Psychotic Features,”
published by the National Center for
Biotechnology Information, U.S. National
Library of Medicine, presented the theory
that excessive marijuana use might not be
the sole cause of the psychotic break, but
that may have triggered it. “There has been
considerable debate regarding the causal
relationship between chronic cannabis
abuse and psychiatric disorders,” proposed
Khan and Akella. “Clinicians agree that
cannabis use can cause acute adverse
mental effects that mimic psychiatric
disorders, such as schizophrenia and
bipolar disorder. Although there is good
evidence to support this, the connections
are complex and not fully understood.” It
is possible that Pigman’s chronic marijuana
use contributed to this episode.
In his journal, Pigman stated that in
the week leading up to Eimi’s murder, his

The scalloped-edged metal tongs used
in Yamada’s murder are a ubiquitous
kitchen accessory and sell for
about $8.

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Delusional Disorder
Delusional disorder, previously called
paranoid disorder, is a type of serious
mental illness called a “psychosis,” in
which a person cannot tell what is real
from what is imagined.
The main feature of this disorder is the
presence of delusions, which are unshakable beliefs in something untrue.
People with delusional disorder experience non-bizarre delusions, which involve situations that could occur in real
life, such as being followed, poisoned,
deceived, conspired against, or loved
from a distance.
These delusions usually involve the misinterpretation of perceptions or experiences. In reality, however, the situations
are either not true at all or highly exaggerated.
People with delusional disorder often
can continue to socialize and function
normally, apart from the subject of their
delusion, and generally do not behave
in an obviously odd or bizarre manner.
This is unlike people with other psychotic disorders, who also might have
delusions as a symptom of their disorder. In some cases, however, people
with delusional disorder might become
so preoccupied with their delusions
that their lives are disrupted.
Grandiose Delusional Disorder: A person with this type of delusional disorder has an over-inflated sense of worth,
power, knowledge, or identity. The person might believe he or she has a great
talent or has made an important discovery.
— source: Webmd.com
mother, Celeste Moore, told her 23-yearold son to move out. She was fed up with
his pot smoking. Pigman borrowed rent
money from his father, George W. Pigman
III, but then spent all but $100 on more
marijuana. Pigman then turned to Eimi
Yamada for succor, knowing that she was
too soft-hearted to deny him anything.
As he worked his way across Pasadena to
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“Was this a cold,
calculated, premeditated killing, or
was it something else?”
— Darby Williams

apocalypse. The sky looked orange. People
were trying to kill me.”
He got his act together long enough
to be charming and manipulative and
sadistic. Eimi paid for everything in their
relationship; he always pretended to have
no money so that he would have more for
drugs. He stole from her. He toyed with
her emotions. He had other girlfriends:
Utako, who was also Japanese, and
Elaine, who was Chinese. Justifying his
cruel behavior, Pigman said, “Everything
happened at once. I got suspended from
work, Utako said she never wanted to see
me again, I got kicked out of my mom’s
and moved in with Eimi all in one week.…
I asked Eimi to be my official girlfriend….
It was crucial, I thought, to make Eimi love
me as much as possible so that I’d have
a place to stay. All it did was make her
suspicious. She was used to me being mean
to her.”
They met up with one of Eimi’s
friends, Misako Saito, who came over to
help Eimi clean the apartment. “I felt
a strange connection,” wrote Pigman.
“The apocalypse was on. For a few days
now things had been speaking to me.
Everything was falling into place.” He
flirted shamelessly with Misako, smoked
copious amounts of weed and fantasized
about being the “master of the world,”
complete with beautiful women feeding
him grapes and massaging his back. After
Misako left, he and Eimi had sex and
watched TV. And the television seemed
to be speaking directly to George Wood
Pigman IV. It suddenly became apparent
that he was God and that Yamada was the
Virgin Mary. What followed was rape and
murder.

“I pounced on Eimi for sex,” explained
Pigman. “I tried to stick it in but was too
rough. She yelled and made a lot of noise.
What was this, a demon? She kept yelling,
as I tried for sex. I had to, you see. She was
the Virgin Mary and I had to impregnate
her to save the world. Then it was clear
that she was a demon and I had to kill her.
I tried to choke her and we thrashed about
the room. She was yelling and kicking
and not dying. I had to kill her. I looked
around for a knife or something. There was
only a pair of handcuffs. I picked up a pair
of semi sharp salad tongs. I chased her into
the bathroom. I started stabbing.”
With no thought of Eimi, Pigman fled.
“What had I done? I needed to get out of
there. I stumbled past my weed, my pipe,
my money, wallet, shoes and skateboard
and jogged barefoot out the door. I fell
over the front gate and I jogged off. My life
was over. What had I done?”
What he had done, of course, was
murder the one person in his life who was
trying to help him. The one person he
hadn’t burned out with second chances.
Within a few minutes, he would be
naked, masturbating and screaming on
a neighbor’s roof. He did not leave the
house naked – he was wearing pants that
he took off when he climbed on top of
the building. Sheriff ’s homicide Detective
Joseph Sheehy later testified that he was
able to follow a trail of blood from the
murder scene to the roof.
Eimi Yamada was curled into a semifetal position on her right side, two
small rugs, a power cord still plugged
into a charging mobile phone, a sandal
and a moderate amount of drying blood
underneath her, according to the coroner’s
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semi-sharp pair of scalloped-edged
kitchen utility tongs, variously described as
“barbecue tongs” and “salad tongs” rested
against her left thigh. Coroner’s officials
later determined Yamada died of multiple
stab wounds and blunt force injuries.
Eimi’s parents were notified of her
murder by the Japanese consulate. They
were inconsolable. Toichi Yamada asked
for the death penalty in a
statement that described
Pigman as a “worthless
insect.” “All possible
reasons for this heinous
crime are footnotes and
no more than simple
excuses,” he wrote to the
jury. Kayo Yamaguchi,
shared her mother’s grief
that she would never see
her daughter grow up
and have a family of her
own. There would be no
loves, no grandchildren
and no opportunities
to spend time together
as a family. She makes a daily offering of
flowers to Eimi to commemorate all the
flowers that she will not receive from the
many people whose lives she might have
touched.
Throughout his trial, Pigman’s defense
team tried to make the case that he was
insane. The prosecution sought to show
malingering. What emerged was a mix
of both: a mentally ill person desperately
trying to prove he wasn’t by pretending
he was. In testimony offered by Sheriffs
Deputy Anthony Delaney, who was
assigned to transport Pigman to the
Los Angeles County Inmate Reception
Center, Pigman described that night’s
Conan O’Brian show, spontaneously
offered “I really screwed up,” and then
said “I shouldn’t be telling you this,
but I think the only way to fight this is
temporary insanity,” in a bizarre stream
of consciousness. Barbara Beaser, a
reporter from the Courier, noted some
discrepancies in Pigman’s behavior;
Deputy District Attorney Teresa Sullivan
challenged Ortego’s diagnosis, referencing
the initial intake form made when Pigman
was first taken to jail.
“‘He seems to be deliberately
attempting to answer the questions
illogically,’” Sullivan quoted from the
intake form. “How do her notes factor in
to your assessment, doctor?” she asked.
“I was convinced he was more trying to
pretend he wasn’t mentally ill,” Ortego
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Ortego also noted that Pigman
displayed bizarre behavior after his arrest
and two days later, on May 9, was sent to
the Twin Towers County Jail’s psychiatric
ward for “sitting naked in his prison cell,
spitting at guards, behaving aggressively
and in a sexually inappropriate manner.”
According to Ortego, he was also “trying
to incite a race riot.” The Whittier Daily
News reported that
Pigman was “discharged
to the jail’s general
population a few days later,
but then was recommitted
on May 24 when he was
again deemed a danger to
himself or others.” “If I die,
the universe goes down
with me but I can resurrect
it,” Pigman told Ortego,
who then modified his
initial diagnosis to include
grandiose delusions.
Pigman also claimed to be
in communication with
rapper 50 Cent and
President George W. Bush.
It was nearly four years before Pigman’s
sentencing concluded. The trial lasted
for approximately six weeks, with two
phases, the guilt phase and the sanity
phase. The jury took less than two full
days to return a guilty verdict, and about
the same time to determine that he was
legally insane when he killed Yamada. That
he murdered Eimi Yamada was never
disputed. Co-counsel for Pigman, Public
Defender Darby Williams, said “This is
not a whodunit. This case is about one
question: Why? Was this a cold, calculated,
pre-meditated killing, or was it something
else?” George Wood Pigman IV was
convicted of first-degree murder Feb. 23,
2009, a crime that carries a mandatory
25-years-to-life sentence. Both Pigman’s
and Yamada’s parents attended the trial.
The sanity phase determined where
he was to serve his time: Patton State
Hospital. The verdict of “not guilty by
reason of insanity,” reached on April 28,
2009, raised the issue of Pigman one day
being “cured” and walking free. “George
has a serious mental illness,” Public
Defender Jose Colon said. “It has to be
fully controlled before anybody would
consider restoration. The possibility exists,

What Are the Symptoms of
Bipolar I Disorder?
During a manic episode in someone
with bipolar disorder, elevated mood
can manifest itself as either euphoria
(feeling “high”) or as irritability.
Abnormal behavior during manic episodes includes:

People in manic episodes may spend
money far beyond their means, have
sex with people they wouldn’t otherwise, or pursue grandiose, unrealistic plans. In severe manic episodes, a
person loses touch with reality. They
may become delusional and behave
bizarrely.
Untreated, an episode of mania can
last anywhere from a few days to
several years. Most commonly, symptoms continue for a few weeks to a
few months. Depression may follow
shortly after, or not appear for weeks
or months.
Many people with bipolar I disorder
experience long periods without
symptoms in between episodes.
but the probability does not.” He added
that a restoration of sanity hearing could
go on for weeks. Pigman, who did not
respond to requests for interview, will
most likely spend the remainder of his life
in jail.

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